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1    AN ACT concerning State government.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Children and Family Services Act is amended
5by adding Section 4c as follows:
 
6    (20 ILCS 505/4c new)
7    Sec. 4c. Temporary residential shelter services. Any child
8care facility authorized by the Department to provide temporary
9residential shelter services to children in the guardianship,
10temporary custody, or protective custody of the Department
11shall:
12        (1) provide interventions and activities that engage
13    the children and youth in its care;
14        (2) maintain staffing levels that ensure a safe
15    environment;
16        (3) implement protocols that require screening and
17    assessment upon admission to evaluate behaviors that
18    indicate the risk of elopement and physical aggression,
19    with the findings reflected in the individual service plan
20    and updated periodically as new behaviors manifest;
21        (4) establish rules and procedures that prevent the
22    violation of curfew laws and that do not permit any child
23    under the age of 18 to leave the facility for any period of

 

 

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1    time prior to the child's complete discharge from the
2    temporary shelter program, unless the child is accompanied
3    by a responsible adult or the facility or the Department
4    authorizes the child to leave the facility for a particular
5    purpose; and
6        (5) whenever a child or youth is absent from the
7    facility without authorization, utilize the standards of
8    best practice and adopt actionable steps to locate and
9    return the child or youth to the facility, including, but
10    not limited to, calling any known contacts, interviewing
11    peer groups likely to know whereabouts, searching
12    community places frequented by the child or youth, and
13    checking schools and work sites; actionable steps shall be
14    frequent and documented and available for review by the
15    Department.
16    A child care facility shall have its admissions placed on
17hold by the Department whenever unauthorized absences from the
18facility are excessive; the admissions hold shall remain in
19effect until the facility has complied with a corrective action
20plan prescribed by the Department, and if the facility is
21non-compliant, the Department shall impose licensing sanctions
22up to and including the revocation of the facility's license.
23    The Department shall adopt any rules necessary to implement
24the requirements of this Section and shall monitor a child care
25facility to ensure that the facility establishes and adheres to
26these requirements. Nothing in this Section shall be

 

 

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1interpreted to create a "secure child care facility" as defined
2in the Child Care Act of 1969.